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Response to that. after that explosion, we heard more activity coming from that direction as well. and in general, john, i would just say it has been a very active morning here with lots of strikes, booms, blasts, mostly in the distance, mostly on the outskirts area. part of the reason for that may be that what we're seeing today here in kyiv for the first time in some days are clear skies. for the last couple of days it has been very foggy, that kind of low hanging fog that makes it much more difficult to carry out aerial bombardment, particularly, because there is no visibility. but this mor...

The government wants a cease-fire, and then he claims libyans can decide whether gadhafi stays or goes. those are his words. decide for yourself whether his government's actions say otherwise. joining us now, fred planken, and ann marie slaughter. she recently served as the director of policy planning. fred, earlier this evening, you heard loud explosions in tripoli. what is the latest at this hour? >> well, we have since then heard several loud explosions around the outskirts area of tripoli. those were by far more powerful than the ones we heard earlier tonight. we don't have word from nato ...

Moussa ibrahim says gadhafi wants a cease-fire. decide whether his government's actions say otherwise. joining me now, cnn's frid pleitgen and ann marie slaughter, she served as the state department's director of policy planning. fred, earlier this season you heard loud explosions in tripoli, renewed nato air strikes on the capital. what is the latest at this hour? >> reporter: well, we've since then heard very more loud explosions around the outskirts area of tripoli. those were by far more powerful than the ones we had heard earlier tonight. we still don't have any word from nato or the gove...